Date/Time
Date(s) - 16 Apr 2024 - 04 Jun 2024
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
CANA
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Dates: Tuesdays (Apr 16-Jun 4)
Time: 19:30-21:30
Venue: Cana, 55 Waterloo St. Level 3
Out of My Personal Compass comes My Body’s Personal Compass. If our human nature is the source of our moral compass, what do our human bodies, which belonging to our nature, have to contribute to our moral compass?
We propose 99 ideas that try to clarify the answer to 10 fundamentals questions regarding the moral contribution of the human body.
Syllabus:
1. Apr 16: ##1-17
2. Apr 23: ## 18-32
3. Apr 30: ## 33-47
4. May 7: ## 48-52
5. May 14: ## 53-64
6. May 21: ## 65-78
7. May 28: ## 79-86
8. Jun 4: ## 87-99
1. Sexual morality has shifted in the name of human dignity.
2. There are four problems with sexual morality today.
3. Biological sex has become irrelevant.
4. We are obsessed with consequences.
5. Human nature has disappeared.
6. Technology split sex from love, life and responsibility.
7. Ideology has made the split desirable.
8. The body is something we are, not something we have.
9. The intimacy of my body stands for my intimacy
10. My body communicates with its own natural language
11. The intimacy of my body communicates my intimacy.
12. Persons and what is personal are not objects to be used as means to other ends.
13. Treating what is personal as an object or as a means degrades it.
14. What is intimate is necessarily personal.
15. The intimacy of the body is always intimate and personal and must never be treated as an object or used as means to other ends.
16. My decisions make me (MPC #2).
17. Decisions that treat the intimacy of the body as an object or means to other ends degrade the person.
18. We are naturally either male or females.
19. Male and female are equal in dignity but different in nearly every other sense.
20. Ignoring or neglecting either the equality or the differences is unjust discrimination.
21. Natural sexual attraction is personal, not only biological.
22. Sexual desires desire for the totality of the other person.
23. Lust is a lack in sexual desires.
24. Romantic love is exclusive because it is total.
25. If sexual desires are not subordinated to love; love will be subordinated to sexual desires.
26. To be honest, sexual desires need education.
27. Casual is not smart, even in sex.
28. Premarital sex is not honest enough.
29. Consuming pornography is being consumed by pornography.
30. Masturbation is normal, normally wrong.
31. Love does not justify sex; truth does.
32. Sex is fully honest only within marriage.
33. Love does not justify marriage; commitment does.
34. The vows of will make marriage; not the will of the majority.
35. Marriage is a natural union, we have no choice.
36. Marriages deserve a social institution.
37. Marriage is good even when marriages are bad.
38. Marriage is good because it brings fidelity
39. Marriage is good because it brings union
40. Marriage is good because it procreates
41. Marriage creates the stage for true human fulfillment.
42. The sexual acts communicates fidelity, union and life.
43. Therefore, the sexual act makes marriage more than any other human act.
44. Trial marriages don’t work.
45. Divorce is anti-marriage
46. Polygamy is not respectful
47. Even consented adultery is morally wrong.
53. It is wrong to discard embryonic people to have more people.
54. Spouses should procreate only with each other.
55. Humans should be procreated; not made.
56. Technology should help persons; not substitute them.
57. Couples may not want children; but there should never be an unwanted person.
58. Respecting the spouse is respecting their bodies and their fertilities.
59. The pill promised heaven but failed to deliver.
60. Abortion is the ultimate birth control.
61. Abortion is taboo for the wrong reasons.
62. We have dignity because of what we are; not because of what we do.
63. All humans have equal, basic dignity and rights, embryonic people included.
64. Using embryonic people is demeaning.
65. Medicine restores; technology manipulates.
66. Medicine needs a profession that professes.
67. Health professionals are stewards; not masters.
68. Free, informed consent is some times necessary but insufficient.
69. Therapeutic research has ethical limits.
70. Non-therapeutic research needs more ethical limits.
71. Plastic surgery might be therapeutic; vanity surgery is not.
72. Transgender surgeries don’t change sex.
73. We may engineer organisms but not people.
74. Cloning people for health is also death.
75. The body is a good of the person; not for the person.
76. Donating non-vital organs might be charitable.
77. Never kill to donate.
78. If the body is alive, the person is alive.
79. Never kill, always care. Cure when proportionate.
80. Letting die may or may not be killing.
81. Proportionate therapies are obligatory.
82. Disproportionate therapies may be withheld or withdrawn.
83. We judge treatments; not people.
84. Quality of life is good but insufficient.
85. To be or not to be, should be the question.
86. Plan for the end of life responsibly; not dogmatically.
87. God has stamped his being in the sexual identity of our bodies.
88. The stamp has been disfigured.
89. The human body needs redemption too.
90. Marriages are not made in heaven.
91. The church is the sacrament of Jesus, who is the sacrament of God.
92. When Christians marry, they make a sacrament.
93. Spouses should submit mutually.
94. The sexual act is a sacramental expression of marriage.
95. Christian spouses are called to be prophets.
96. Christian spouses are called to be leaders.
97. Christian spouses are called to be priests.
98. Celibacy for the kingdom is sacramental but not a sacrament.
99. Love Life, live Love!